do you always let your pokemon evolve?

[Millzar The Pirate]

why are why not?

[Amphi]

well personally it depends on my mood i usually do just because its kind of the natural progression of the game but occasionally I'll leave the pokemon at the stage its at just because I like it

[Phosphorous]

Usually if i let them stay at a pre evolution it's because I'm trying to get them to learn a move they can't learn later, or they might learn it sooner.

[Millzar The Pirate]

sometimes if the pokemon is going to learn allo the moves anyway i might just keep it if i think the pre evolution form is cooler

[NostawDNA]

I usually just let it evolve unless I need it to stay in a pre-evolved state to learn a move, but even then if i can use a TM later on I'll just let them evolve if they are ready

[boyben10]

On Heartgold, i delayed my gastly's evolution so it could learn shadow ball earlier, but then i decided not to evolve it, and now its level 46 and helped me get past lance's gyarados a lot easier.

[Wrathes]

That's nice. ^^ Make sure you get Gengar as soon as possible and have Tbolt in your Move Pool besides Shadow Ball. ^^
As for me, I tend to stay for a move that would be learned earlier or a move that will not be learned. Then breed that move to the egg and then continue on with the correct Nature. If it was something like first start, I'll just plow through and let them evolve. :p

[The Fireball Kid]

I thought if you evolve your pokemon, you gain more stat points. Guess I'm wrong?

[Wrathes]

You are right. The EV's you gain are increased by a bit.

[Stranger]

I thought if you evolve your pokemon, you gain more stat points. Guess I'm wrong?

Yup... which in some cases I think is plain wrong... f.e. I think a Squirtle is faster than a Blastoise. Still, the stats tells me otherwise... can't imagine that lump of a pokemon move fast when out of water.

On topic though I always let my pokemon evolve. Yes... except Squirtle... because he's cute... which is quite a bit of an unmanly thing to say. But yeah... screw you...everyone.

[The Fireball Kid]

I thought if you evolve your pokemon, you gain more stat points. Guess I'm wrong?

Yup... which in some cases I think is plain wrong... f.e. I think a Squirtle is faster than a Blastoise. Still, the stats tells me otherwise... can't imagine that lump of a pokemon move fast when out of water.

On topic though I always let my pokemon evolve. Yes... except Squirtle... because he's cute... which is quite a bit of an unmanly thing to say. But yeah... screw you...everyone.

Only pokemon I would consider not to evolve is Balbasaur. His evolutions look really ugly. But he would be so weak compared to a venasaur if they both level 100 I think.

[Declan_23]

I always evolve all my pokemon except Pikachu. How could you evolve it after seeing how much it doesn't want to in the anime?

[Grey]

I tend to not evolve my starter Pokemon but have no problem evolving my other Pokemon. It all depends on the moves they need to learn and to be honest, how cool the form looks.

[baralai15]

it depends on if its higher level it learns a better move. like scyther learns a move at like level 20 something but you can evolve him whenever pretty much. If it doesnt learn anything it cant learn when its evolved then i would like to evolve it if that makes any sense.

[stephenkill2]

I will never evolve my scyther, he is level 100 and a scyther, because scissor is gaytarded.